JAMES P. CURTIS ENDOWED LECTURE SERIES
The JAMES P. CURTIS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES was created by the Board of Directors of the Capstone College of Education Society to bring an educator or public figure of renownto the campus each year to lecture about contemporary education issues. It was named in honor of Dr. James P. Curtis, a faculty member in the College of Education for 23 years. During his service to The University as Professor of Administration and Educational Leadership and Assistant Dean of the Bureau of Educational Services and Research, and through his guidance, Curtis influenced the lives and careers of countless students who have become prominent educators throughout Alabama, the United States, and the world. The series was inaugurated in 1991 with lecture by the late Dr. John Henry Martin, developer of the Writing to Read software.
1991
Dr. John Henry Martin
Writing to Read
1992
Dr. Diane S. Ravitch
Standards and Testing in American Education
1993
Dr. Phillip C. Schlechty
Schools of the Twenty-first Century
1994
Dr. William W. Purkey
Creating Inviting Schools for the Twenty-first Century
1995
Dr. Donald P. Ely
Technology is the Answer, But What is the Question?
1996
Mr. Juan Williams
Education, the Leading Edge of Politics: Looking Toward the Twenty-first
Century
1997
Patricia A. Wasley
Essential Connections: Kids and School Reform
1998
Dr. John I. Goodlad
Education for Democratic Character
1999
Dr. Claire Ellen Weinstein
Strategic Learning, Strategic Teaching for the Twenty-first Century
2000
Dr. David C. Berliner
The Silence of the Lambs: Education and the Business Community
2001
Dr. Marilyn Cochran-Smith
Outputs, Outcomes, and Results: The New Orthodoxy in Teacher Education
2002
Dr. Howard Gardner
From Multiple Intelligences to Good Work
2003
Mr. Batt Burns
Ireland’s Oral Tradition as a Dynamic Teaching Tool
2004
Dr. Joseph Renzulli
Expanding the Conception of Giftedness To Include Co-Cognitive Traits
and To Promote Social Capital
2005
Dr. William Sanders
Beyond No Child Left Behind with Value-Added Assessment: Teachers
Make a Difference
2006
Kathryn Tucker Windham and Joseph Sobol
2007
Dr. Sharon Robinson
Teaching: Building a World of Learners